There was a harsh and long winter on Kuwu Island, and since the graduates of the Nanbei Lecture Martial Arts Hall installed local three guards to become flag officers of more than 100 households, and conducted short-term voyage training for their subordinate flag troops, people began to know what they were going to.

"The gentlemen can see from the map that they can reach the north of America through the East Strait, but whether the north of America is shown on the map, even Chen Shuai does not know."

Xi'er Hawei, who graduated from the Xuanfu Army Lecture Hall and was summoned by the emperor and the first assistant, served as the commander of Xi'er Hawei and the deputy chief soldier of Kuwu Ma Jin stood on the handsome platform, pointed to the map behind him, and said to the generals in front of him and the banner army behind him: "I will wait for this military affairs, report to Your Majesty, comfort the people of Li, find out the America thousands of miles away, and set up a defense post in the local area." ”

In fact, whether there is a distance of 10,000 miles, Ma Jin doesn't know, Xuanfu Wutang didn't tell him the answer, but it's always right to say it from a distance.

"The place where the kings are located, Kuwu Island, known as the land of the extreme north in ancient times, all those who have traveled eastward this time will be recorded in history, and future generations will also be tolerant!"

Ma Jin said and opened the edict on the handsome platform, and read it aloud: "The edict of the Great Tomorrow, whoever enters North Asia Merica first, regardless of Huayi or Hu Yue, can speak Chinese as the people of the Ming Dynasty, and all of them will be credited with meritorious service!" ”

Ma Jin paused for a moment after saying a word, and the Jurchen riders under the command of Nikan Wailan on the periphery of the military formation shouted and repeated it in Jurchen language.

"Ascend to North Amerika, more than 1,000 households, and those who can find out the place to set up a guard will set up a guard, and the merit will be recorded at the first level."

"Kuwu Island, those who recruit people to join the army, quasi-100 people, and the first level of meritorious service; Ascend to North America, less than 1,000 households, can prospect for gold, open a kiln, and record the merit level; Those who can draw public opinion cartographers, draw ten miles, and record the merits at the first level; The one who can defeat the enemy, in every battle, the merit is recorded at the first level; Those who donate rare birds and beasts will be credited with meritorious service; Those who pay tribute to the treasures of Huamei will be remembered as a first-class meritorious ......"

After a large list of imperial court memorizations to North Asia in the Ma Jin newspaper, the edict was stuffed into his arms and stepped back, Ma Gui stepped out with his sword on his waist, and the two columns of honor guards on the handsome platform shouted: "Silence! ”

When the flag officer and the flag army below quieted down, Ma Gui then said loudly: "Those who have merit, the flag army raises a small flag, a merit; The small flag raises the general flag, two merits; The total flag is raised to 100 households, and there are three merits; 100 households to 1,000 households, four merits; Deputy 1,000 households are promoted to 1,000 households, five merits; Qianhu promoted to deputy commander, commander Tongzhi, seven merits; Ascend to the command of the guard, ten merits. ”

"Those who want to be promoted to give real teaching, immediately promote real teaching; Those who do not want to be promoted will be rewarded with ten taels for one merit, fifty taels for three merits, and one hundred and fifty taels of silver for five merits! ”

"Whoever wants to get silver, half a year the ship arrives and gives silver; Those who don't want to ask for silver, North Asia Melica, a merit of fifty acres of land, in the household registration, can move to live, and get a reward! ”

Ma Gui's voice fell, and there was no big movement in the lower voice, only the generals in front of the banner army slowly bowed their heads, looked at each other and clenched their fists, although the Han flag army behind them exchanged heads and ears, but they were still able to restrain themselves.

When the riders of Nikan Wailan's subordinates, who were proficient in Chinese, Jurchen, and Mongolian, rode away from the Chinese army formation and shouted, it was only when the military formation of hundreds of people really boiled.

The Jurchens who had been summoned here could not resist the temptation, and only a few of them were able to remain calm and exercise great restraint, for they all came from farther north, and even the people of the three major tribes called them savages, and many of them had never seen silver, nor knew what it could do, nor did they feel that arable land was valuable.

Whatever is planted in their fields will be frozen, and it is better to fish and hunt.

However, I don't know which Jurchen warrior beside them shouted to them: "The land is the hunting ground, and the prey you hit on the land is yours!" ”

It's really lively now, and the noise seems to be about to tear off the tiles on those wooden houses in the Acropolis, and Magui smiled.

It was too difficult for them to recruit soldiers, even if the banner army that was transferred by the imperial court from the Wanquan Capital Division to join the Kuwu Sanwei had no choice, they were reluctant to go east overseas, let alone the Jurchens recruited by Nikan Wailan from the Jurchen Third Division.

No one wants to be far from their homeland.

But with an edict brought back by Ma Jin and others, everything is different.

The Banner Army and the Jurchens of Xi'er Hawei were allowed to take a holiday, and they were allowed to return to their hometowns to recruit more Banner Army and Jurchens, on the condition that they were strong and strong, regardless of whether they farmed land and raised horses, carpenters and stonemasons, even if they could sew clothes, anyone with a skill could be allowed.

Because during this time, the most important thing for Ma Gui, the chief soldier of Kuwu Island, was time, and he was waiting for the medical craftsman sent by the capital.

The medical craftsman had already arrived, but the pox powder prepared was not enough, and it happened that his flag army was not enough, so the doctor and the flag army returned to Beijing together, and specially invited the imperial court to send an edict directly to the Tai Hospital, so that they could prepare the pox powder, and select the most skilled doctors to raise the powder and prepare for the pox.

In this world, as long as the emperor and the cabinet want to do one thing, even if it wants to achieve the effect of the sun disappearing, everyone can close their eyes.

However, in the past few months, the top-down edict has had a great effect, and the most powerful thing is naturally the change caused by the Tai Hospital's obsession with pox, which has aroused great enthusiasm for pox.

The more troublesome doctor boarded the conscription ship bound for Kuwu Island directly from Tianjin Wei.

Speaking of conscription, the movement made by Ma Gui is not small, and the eastward meritorious reward that spread in the Wanquan Capital Division really attracted some people, but the commanders from all over the country did not dare to release all the people, and only a small number of places were given.

Those banner troops could not rely on recruiting people to join the army in exchange for war exploits, and they were in a hurry to get angry, and finally some people set their sights on the north, north of the Great Wall.

In the Tumo River of Guiyi Wang Alta spread the news that the Ming Dynasty found a vast land and set out to recruit manpower, and the people who lived outside the fortress and some of the Mongolian people followed the Great Wall to buckle the pass, the number of scattered is not huge, but the sum is not small, and finally alarmed Meda.

After understanding this, he sent a letter to the emperor, and he asked the emperor if he organized people to go to Tianjin, if there were any rewards, and whether the rewards of these people would be provided in full.

Zhang Juzheng replied immediately, give, give, not only give, but three uncastrated war horses can give another credit!

Altan Khan is a man of numbers, he calculated, a war horse that has not been castrated is sold in the mouth market, let alone ten taels, and you will be rewarded with ten taels of silver for one merit. It takes thirty war horses to make up the highest reward for five merits, and the war horses that can be sold for three hundred taels can be exchanged for two hundred taels, and they will lose money!

So he simply ignored the war horse proposed by Zhang Juzheng, sent troops to collect manpower at the root of the Great Wall, and drove out the bastards who did not obey orders by the way, and gathered thousands of people to hand over to Jiekou City and send them to Kuwu.

The island is bustling with activity, with thousands of people flocking to the island for months, awaiting resettlement with their families and preparing to receive a potentially dangerous pox, while others begin to learn Chinese on the spot.

In April of the first year of Wanli, Ma Jin, the deputy chief soldier of Kuwu, led a pioneer fleet of more than 700 people, sailed by boat, and crossed the sea to America!